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"DO  NOT  LET  THE  NEEDS  OF  THE 
HOUR,  HOWEVER  HEAVILY  THEY  FALL 
ON  THE  MEN  AND  WOMEN  OF  TODAY, 
PERMIT  NEGLECT  OF  THE  DEFENSES 
OF  TOMORROW"— Message  of  the  Uni- 
versities of  France  to  the  Schools  and 
Colleges  of  America. 


The  GROWTH 

OF 

Middlebury  College 


A  ^  ^ 


THE  RECORD  OF  115  YEARS  AT  MIDDLEBURY 


OCCUPATIONS  OF 

GRADUATES 


Ministers     - 

-     658 

Lawyers 

519 

Doctors 

-      156 

Teachers 

1198 

School  Superintendents  - 

80 

School  Commissioners 

7 

College  Professors 

-      200 

College  Presidents 

37 

Governors    - 

12 

United  States  Senators 

4 

Members  of  Congress 

18 

Judges     .... 

100 

HAS  IT  BEEN 

WORTHWHILE? 


One  out^of  ten  of  the  living  graduates  and  former  students  is  now  serving  under  the  colors  in  army  or  navy. 


1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 


STUDENT  ATTENDANCE 

[Exclusive  of  Summer  Session] 
Note  the  Consistent  and  Healthful  Growth 

136    | 
156    I 


118 


178 


I 


202 


I 


226 


276 


305 


330    | 


338    | 


343 


372 


292    | 


1918  showing  first  decrease 
for  twenty  years;  due  to 
army  and  navy  enlistments 


SUMMER   SESSION   ATTENDANCE 


1909 

wK 

1910 
1911 

f 

1912 

5 
R 

1913 

C 

1914 

1915 
1916 

1917 

86     I   *<   <^    The  Summer  Session  was  organized  in  1909. 


95    | 


1  11 


84    L 


120 


120 


149 


In  1912  the  admission  of  high  school  students  was 
discontinued,    Note  the  Growth  from  that  year. 


184    | 

206    I 


INCOME  FROM  STUDENTS 

672  Per  Cent  Gain  in  Eleven  Years 


1906 

$4,904      | 

1907 

$5,194    | 

1908 

$5,G9G    j 

1909 

$11,095    | 

A  remarkable  progress, 
but  1918  will  show  25% 
war  time  loss. 

1910 

$15,604 

1911 

$19,687 

1912 

$23,913    1 

i 

1913 

$27,211 

\ 

1914 

$27,285 

\ 

1915 

$31,314    |               \ 

1916 

$31,953    |               A 

1917 

$37,484 

TOTAL  INCOME 

More  Than  Quadrupled  in  Eleven  Years 


1906 
1907 
1908 
1 909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 


$25.914 


$28,496 


$28,490 


$29f299 


$36,072    j 


$54,781 


$59,113 


$69,498    j 


$74,763 


1 


$89,142    | 

$92,782H 


$105,222    ] 


INVESTED  FUNDS 

Endowments  More  Than  Doubled 


1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 


$415,059 


$416,182 


$415,340 


$445,215 


$445,743 


$429,081 
$453,464 

$515,809  | 
$541,712 


$530,853^ 


] 


J563,479  | 


$966,56P"1 


VALUE  OF  BUILDINGS  AND  GROUNDS 

Nine  New  Buildings,  214  Acres  Added  to  Campus 


1906 
1907 
1908 

_$233,50"cn 
$233,500  | 
$240,000  1 

1909 

$240,000  1 

1910 

$242,500 

1911 

$265,987 

1912 

$341,354  | 

1913 

$422,862  | 

1914 

$429,994  | 

1915 

$518,455 

1916 

$703,040  | 

1917 

$745,755*1 

COMPARISON  OF  ENDOWMENTS 


DEMONSTRATING  MIDDLEBURY'S  NEED 


Bowdoin 
Amherst     . 
Wesleyan 
Williams     . 
Middlebury 


STUDENTS 

ENDOWMENT 

PER  STUDENT 

434 

$2,401,653 

$5,573 

5<>9 

3,000,000 

5,940 

480 

2,414,768 

5,030 

549 

2,338,500 

4,259 

372 

966,810 

2,599 

ANNUAL  INCOME  FROM 
ENDOWMENT  PER  STUDENT 

$276 
297 
25« 

213 

96 


THE    LIBERTY    ENDOWMENT    FUND 

WHAT  IT  IS :     A  proposed  addition  of  $300,000  to  permanent  trust  funds. 

THE  OFFER:     $100,000  pledged  conditionally,  provided  $200,000  additional  is  subscribed  before  July  1,  1918. 

WHO  MAKES  IT?     A  friend  who  means  what  he  says.     We  must  meet  his  terms  or  lose  his  money. 

WHY  LIBERTY  ENDOWMENT ?     Because  payment  in  Liberty  Bonds  is  preferred.     All  issues  accepted  at  par 

during  the  war. 

WHAT  FOR ?     General   Endowment:    increase  of   salaries   of   Professors   and   improvement   and   expansion   of 
college  work. 

WHY  NECESSARY?     Because  owing  to  war  conditions  deficit  and  debt  confront  us  unless  we  increase  our  funds 

WHEN  PAYABLE ?     Before   July  1  preferred.     If  desired,  in  three  annual  installments  beginning  July  1,  1918, 
with  interest  at  five  per  cent. 


RESULTS  TO   DATE 


The  conditional  offer 
The  Hudson  Fund 
One  subscription 

Two  subscriptions  at  $5,000 

Four  subscriptions  at  1,000 

Two  subscriptions  at  500 

Four  subscriptions  at  250 

Two  subscriptions  at  200 
Eighteen  subscriptions  at  100 

Three  subscriptions  at  75 


100,000          ' 

>          Twenty-seven  subscriptions 

at  #50 

-      $i,35° 

8,300        I 

>          One  subscription 

- 

-      45 

10,000          ( 

>          Five  subscriptions  at 

30 

150 

10,000          * 

>          Five  subscriptions  at 

25    - 

-     125 

4,000          ' 

>          One  subscription 

- 

20 

1,000          { 

>          One  subscription 

- 

-       15 

1,000 

400          < 

>          Two  subscriptions  at 

10 

20 

1,800         I 

$138,450 

225         < 

WHY   NOW? 

Because  deficit  and  debt  confront  us. 

The  colleges  feel  the  wir  more  severely  than  any  other  institution  or  business.  It  is  taking  our  very  life.  They 
called  on  our  boys  first  for  the  officers'  training  camps,  for  the  navy,  for  ambulance  corps,  for  every  special  branch  of 
the  service,  and  those  left  were  subject  to  the  same  draft  as  others.  We  are  proud  of  the  response  they  made — our 
attendance  has  fallen  27  per  cent  from  last  year — but  we  must  ask  help  to  meet  the  financial  problem. 

Because  the  future  will  demand  a  more  efficient  college. 

There  has  never  been  a  time  when  the  American  people  have  had  greater  reason  for  interest  in  theii  colleges. 
War  is  the  arch  destroyer  and  we  have  as  yet  no  realization  of  the  tremendous  wastage  the  world  has  suffered.  The 
damage  can  only  be  repaired  by  enormous  labor,  and  the  labor  must  be  directed  by  intelligence.  It  is  time  now 
to  prepare  for  an  adequate  supply  of  trained  leaders.  A  host  of  new  problems  will  arise  after  the  war.  It  will  be 
America's  golden  day  of  opportunity,  economically  for  the  expansion  of  business,  and  not  less  morally  and  spiritually  in 
the  construction  of  a  new  world  democracy.  We  dare  not  neglect  the  message  of  the  Universities  of  bleeding 
France  to  the  colleges  of  America  : — 

"  Do  not  let  the  needs  of  the  hour,  however  heavily  they  fall  on  men  and  women  of  to-day,  permit  neglect  of 
the  defenses  of  tomorrow." 


THE    MORAL 

It  has  taken  me  ten  years  to  write  this  little  book.  The  story  has  been  told  for  one  purpose  only  —  to  inspire 
confidence  in  Middlebury  College  as  an  institution  which  merits  benevolence  because  of  her  record  and  which  is  in 
urgent  need  of  further  assistance  because  of  the  depletion  of  students  on  account  of  the  war. 

A  college  which  has  doubled  her  endowments,  trebled  the  value  of  her  buildings,  quadrupled  her  annual  income, 
and  multipied  by  six  her  receipts  from  students,  all  within  a  period  of  ten  years,  merits  the  support  of  the  discerning. 

The  appeal  of  Middlebury  College  is  in  behalf  of  students  who  can  afford  college  opportunities  only  at  very 
moderate  cost.  There  are  large  numbers  of  them  in  New  England  and  adjacent  States,  and  during  all  her  history 
Middlebury  College  has  held  out  to  them  special  opportunity.  This  traditional  policy  is  being  maintained  to-day  and 
a  large  proportion  of  our  present  students  are  working  their  way.  Proper  facilities  for  them  require  an  increase  of  our 
funds,  and  for  this  purpose  and  to  save  the  college  from  a  serious  set-back  because  of  war  conditions,  I  appeal  most 
earnestly  for  subscriptions  to  the  Liberty  Endowment  Fund,  toward  which  we  have  received  a  conditional  offer  of  one- 
third  of  the  total.     A  blank  providing  liberal  terms  of  payment  is  enclosed  herewith. 

Middlebury,  Vermont.  // 


